Coalition time for the unloved and the unforgiven?

As Leinster House grinds towards the August holiday there is little comfort for the political parties in today’s Sunday Business Post opinion poll. Fine Gael down, Fianna Fáil down, Labour marginally up, Sinn Féin no change. As the beaches beckon from Kerry to Donegal, only the trusty independents will be building sandcastles. Whether or not their sandcastles are in the air remains to be seen.